[TriLUG] RH Boot & Install Floppy

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 16:14, Dave Schwartzburg wrote:
> I have a friend that is looking to create a bootable & installable 
> floppy with a custom Redhat kernel that supports a non-standard NIC.  He 
> needs this all on one floppy.  The source code for the NIC module and 
> insmod do not fit onto a single floppy.

Might I suggest a different approach?

Use the Red Hat Linux install floppy, then make a supplemental driver
disk for his NIC driver.

Doug Ledford has a Driver Disk development kit on his website:
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/

If you do an "expert" or a "dd" install of Red Hat Linux, it will prompt
you for the driver disk, then load the module and install it to the
running system.

This is what I did for Adaptec DPT Raid controllers for older versions
of Red Hat Linux.

~spot
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